Major Blog Assignment

"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's f***ed up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a...

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...

Analysis:

The first stanza shows how, at the beginning of the year, i "walk alone". Totally new to this school, i have no choice but to take the paths that i "have ever known" the ones that were familiar. I did not stay in school much, afterall there was not much to do, so i went "home".
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I walk down this "empty street", somewhere in Term 2. Yes, i have friends, but i do not have the one thing a student would love to have. No, not girlfriends... ... But results. My dreams of a fantastic single digit MSG (MeanSubjectGrade), has now become just another "Broken Dream". But this is just the beginning. My EP3 (Co-Curricular Actvity) isn't going too well. So, i walk on a whole "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
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This Third Stanza is written very short, afterall, it just repeats " i walk alone", to emphasise how lonely i walk. I seem to be suffering alone. Though deep in my heart, my subconscious mind, i know i don't stand alone. The Fourth stanza, repeats i walk alone, but it ends abruptly. Its just like how my EP3 has improved drastically. No more the "noob" jumper who has no technique nor strength.
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The Fifth stanza is exactly how i feel during tests. No, i am not nervous. But, i feel alone. With nothing but my "shadow" beside me, i seem to be in a totally different dimension. A universe where i "walk alone". Due to all those horrid results that stand before me, i would naturally be worried. Sometimes, i just hope that the awesome A1 results would just "find me". But until then, "i walk alone".
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By the way, if you hear the song, all those Aahs and Aah-ahs don't sound like screaming, so yes. Its just some sort of noise. BUT, in the next stanza. It describes me fine. I "walk down the line" that "divides me somewhere in my mind". Wondering which side to cross over. The super-mugger (mugging in Singapore doesn't mean you rob somebody, but its just that you spend massive amounts of time studying) side, or the slacker side. Both sides don't suit me. So, i just sit on the fence. "Walking alone" on the "border line".
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I try to "read between the lines" during tests, but normally, i intepret wrongly. Someimtes, i just sit down and "check my vital signs", seeing if i am "still alive" after i see that massive C5 linger in my mind. But, i "know i am still alive" and i have no choice but to continue "walking alone" without A1s. The rest of the song is just a repetition, which is an emphasis on all i have said in the past 5 Paragraphs. I "walk alone", on the "boulevard of broken dreams". Annihilated probably by the shortage of hardwork? But i don't just eat chips all day in front of my telly. I guess...i would just have to keep trying. Hopefully, after the EOYs(EndOfYear exams), i would no longer walk alone...

Poem Response

How long more do i have to endure this excruciating suffering?
How much further to that elusive end?
How come i just fail to achieve that A1?

Fret not my dear, it will all come.
Its just a matter of time.
A matter of hard work.
A LARGE amount of matter.

No matter how high,
No matter how fast,
No matter how far,
There will be people better than you.

Does this mean you just give up.
NO!
Keep holding on to that silvery strand of spiderweb,
the web of your dreams.
Do not let go!
Keep holding on to that last strand of rope.
If you dare to let go, there will be nothing left to hold.

Whom do you listen to?
You, yourself, or your mother?
Your destiny is yours to control.
Grip it like a tiger's jaws going in for the kill.
Grab your destiny by the neck.
Drag it along with you.
Make it happen.

By, Hum Qing Ze
known by YueJun as "Grassoat"